Beatriz Lopez Lopez

Biography	I completed a PhD on the legacies of Spark’s covert propaganda work for the Political Warfare Executive in her post-war fiction. Drawing on untapped archival materials from the Political Warfare Executive Papers (The National Archives, UK), the Imperial War Museum Archive (UK), the Muriel Spark Archive (National Library of Scotland, UK) and the Muriel Spark Papers (McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa, USA), my research brought together history, biography and literary criticism to rethink Spark's fascination with the art of deception. I carried out this research as part of ‘The Political Warfare Executive, Covert Propaganda, and British Culture’ research project, based at Durham University and funded by the Leverhulme Trust. I was supervised by Prof. Patricia Waugh and Prof. James Smith. I hold an MSc in Literature and Modernity: 1900 to the Present (with Distinction) from the University of Edinburgh and a BA in English Studies (with First Class Honours) from the University of Oviedo (Spain) I have active research interests in post-war British literature (particularly women’s fiction), modern and contemporary Scottish literature, and the cultural history of the Second World War. My journal article ‘Muriel Spark and the Art of Deception: Constructing Plausibility with the Methods of WWII Black Propaganda’, was published by The Review of English Studies in 2020. I am currently writing a book proposal for my monograph Muriel Spark, Wartime Propaganda and Post-War Fiction and co-editing British Writing, Propaganda and Cultural Diplomacy in the Second World War and Beyond with James Smith and Guy Woodward (under contract with Bloomsbury Academic). This edited collection is the outcome of an online academic conference on ‘The Writer as Psychological Warrior’ that we organised in July 2021. My book chapter ‘The Psychology of Post-War Revolutionary Terrorism in Muriel Spark’s The Only Problem and Doris Lessing’s The Good Terrorist’ is forthcoming in The Figure of the Terrorist in Literature and Visual Culture, edited by Maria Flood and Michael C. Frank (EUP, 2023). From 2019, I have taught on 'Introduction to the Novel' (Level 1). I design teaching materials, guide tutorial discussions, mark formative essays and exam scripts, and provide written and one-to-one oral essay feedback to students. I was awarded Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy in January 2021. From October 2023, I work as Commissioning Editor (Psychology) for McGraw Hill Higher Education & Open University Press and I will not be undertaking new research, teaching or reviewing work. Twitter: @bealoplop
Research Interests	Postwar British Literature Scottish Literature Cultural History of the Second World War Gothic Studies

Biography

I completed a PhD on the legacies of Spark’s covert propaganda work for the Political Warfare Executive in her post-war fiction. Drawing on untapped archival materials from the Political Warfare Executive Papers (The National Archives, UK), the Imperial War Museum Archive (UK), the Muriel Spark Archive (National Library of Scotland, UK) and the Muriel Spark Papers (McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa, USA), my research brought together history, biography and literary criticism to rethink Spark's fascination with the art of deception. I carried out this research as part of ‘The Political Warfare Executive, Covert Propaganda, and British Culture’ research project, based at Durham University and funded by the Leverhulme Trust. I was supervised by Prof. Patricia Waugh and Prof. James Smith. I hold an MSc in Literature and Modernity: 1900 to the Present (with Distinction) from the University of Edinburgh and a BA in English Studies (with First Class Honours) from the University of Oviedo (Spain)

I have active research interests in post-war British literature (particularly women’s fiction), modern and contemporary Scottish literature, and the cultural history of the Second World War. My journal article ‘Muriel Spark and the Art of Deception: Constructing Plausibility with the Methods of WWII Black Propaganda’, was published by The Review of English Studies in 2020. I am currently writing a book proposal for my monograph Muriel Spark, Wartime Propaganda and Post-War Fiction and co-editing British Writing, Propaganda and Cultural Diplomacy in the Second World War and Beyond with James Smith and Guy Woodward (under contract with Bloomsbury Academic). This edited collection is the outcome of an online academic conference on ‘The Writer as Psychological Warrior’ that we organised in July 2021. My book chapter ‘The Psychology of Post-War Revolutionary Terrorism in Muriel Spark’s The Only Problem and Doris Lessing’s The Good Terrorist’ is forthcoming in The Figure of the Terrorist in Literature and Visual Culture, edited by Maria Flood and Michael C. Frank (EUP, 2023).

From 2019, I have taught on 'Introduction to the Novel' (Level 1). I design teaching materials, guide tutorial discussions, mark formative essays and exam scripts, and provide written and one-to-one oral essay feedback to students. I was awarded Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy in January 2021.

From October 2023, I work as Commissioning Editor (Psychology) for McGraw Hill Higher Education & Open University Press and I will not be undertaking new research, teaching or reviewing work.

Twitter: @bealoplop

Research Interests

Postwar British Literature
Scottish Literature
Cultural History of the Second World War
Gothic Studies